{"id":13715,"date":"2011-11-14T16:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&p=13715"},"modified":"2011-11-14T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T22:57:23","slug":"global-cv-health-concerns-macro-and-micro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/11\/14\/global-cv-health-concerns-macro-and-micro\/","title":{"rendered":"Global CV Health Concerns: Macro and Micro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.11 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.\u00a0 The Fellows include\u00a0Revathi Balakrishnan<\/a>,<\/a> Eiman Jahangir<\/a>, John Ryan<\/a> (moderator), and Amit Shah<\/a>. Read the previous post here<\/a>. Check back often to learn about the biggest buzz in Orlando.<\/em><\/p>\n

First, a full disclosure: I was a Fogarty International Cardiovascular Fellow<\/a> last year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n

Okay, now I can write about Early Career: Global Cardiovascular Health Opportunities. Well, actually, another disclosure: I only attended the later sessions, when investigators discussed their research in the developing world from Kenya to Argentina.<\/p>\n

While it was interesting to hear what was being done in a small subset of the global health research, I feel that overall the session missed the part about \u201cglobal health opportunities.\u201d Probably the earlier sessions covered the actual \u201copportunities,\u201d but I felt that the later sessions were not informing listeners about how to pursue such a career.<\/p>\n

Dr. Salim Yusuf\u2019s session was most informative. I truly enjoyed hearing from this successful and insightful mentor and researcher. Now I know how I should approach and present myself to a potential mentor. What was a bit concerning was Dr. Yusuf\u2019s statement that an individual should take at least 10 years to train in research. In our society, one is a clinical instructor for 3 years and an assistant professor maybe for 5 years \u2014 the 10-year mark seems long. I am not sure that if you told a fellow that he will have to train 10 years to become a researcher that he would leap onto the physician-scientist track. Still, it is probably true that to become a good researcher requires 10 years and that one cannot be both a great researcher and a great clinician.<\/p>\n

Regardless of these criticisms, I was very happy to see a session on global cardiovascular health, a topic that is very dear to me. With globalization, which includes both a urbanization of populations and a change in diet and physical activity, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the world, is becoming a major issue in developing countries, and \u00a0disproportionately affects the low and middle income countries. We need to continue to decrease the burden of disease on these countries. In future years, I hope that this session and these concerns will take a larger and larger part of the program at AHA.<\/p>\n

Have you found anything at the AHA that missed the mark?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now I know how I should approach and present myself to a potential mentor. But will it really take at least 10 years to train in research?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}